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or – more fundamentally – enable them to leave their workplace altogether and launch themselves into a brand new career (sometimes completely divorced from the one they’re quitting). While schools and colleges don’t shirk when it comes to shouldering their academic responsibilities, their remit doesn’t stop there, with concern for the environment influencing everything from energy consumption to levels of recycling. This approach to sustainability and green issues may not yet be enshrined in a policy document, but given the commitment many are showing to reducing their carbon footprints – treading more lightly on the planet, as the saying has it – it might as well be. Eco-awareness isn’t something that school leaders are having to tackle on their own. Each school or college is a community in its own right, often packed with committed students, staff and families willing to provide ideas and hands-on help. Then there are the outside groups, some commercial, others third sector, offering everything from free staff training to the incentive of working towards eco awards. Nobody ever said that working in education was easy, particularly with so much going on inside and outside the classroom. But in an area notable for its committed communities, inspiring and hardworking educators at every stage and – in many cases – top-class results, few would argue that the ingredients for continued success aren’t already impressively in place. “Few would argue that the ingredients for success aren’t already in place”
CAMBRIDGE EDUCATION GUIDE
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